Bowman-Birk inhibitors (BBIs) are found primarily in seeds of legumes and in cereal grains.
These canonical inhibitors share a highly conserved nine-amino acids binding loop motif …

Global food security is threatened by rice blast disease caused by the filamentous fungus
Magnaporthe oryzae. An understanding of rice resistance mechanisms is fundamental to …

Rice blast and bacterial blight, caused by the fungus Magnaporthe oryzae and the bacterium
Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo), respectively, are devastating diseases affecting rice …

Many transcription factors (TFs) in animals bind to both DNA and mRNA, regulating
transcription and mRNA turnover. However, whether plant TFs function at both the …

Ubc13 is required for Lys63‐linked polyubiquitination and innate immune responses in
mammals, but its functions in plant immunity still remain largely unknown. Here, we used …

Nucleotide-binding leucine-rich repeat (NLR) proteins play critical roles in plant immunity.
However, how NLRs are regulated and activate defense signaling is not fully understood …

During effector-triggered immunity (ETI) against the devastating rice blast pathogen
Magnaporthe oryzae, Pi9 functions as an intracellular resistance protein sensing the …

Phenolamides (PAs), a diverse group of specialized metabolites, including
hydroxycinnamoylputrescine (HP), hydroxycinnamoylagmatine, and …

Rice blast, caused by Magnaporthe oryzae, is one of the most devastating diseases of rice.
During infection, M. oryzae secretes effectors to facilitate blast development. Among these …

Normally, when different species of herbivorous arthropods feed on the same plant this
leads to fitness-reducing competition. We found this to be different for two of Asia's most …